Why worship a jealous, angry, vindictive, intolerant god?

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Why worship a jealous, angry, vindictive, intolerant god?

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Christians, you proudly worship the bible 'God'. Agreed?

The 'god' is well described in the bible as jealous, angry, vindictive, intolerant, and inclined to punish, torture, or kill anyone it dislikes.

WHY worship such a 'god'?
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Zzyzx wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 4:06 pm Christians, you proudly worship the bible 'God'. Agreed?

The 'god' is well described in the bible as jealous, angry, vindictive, intolerant, and inclined to punish, torture, or kill anyone it dislikes.

WHY worship such a 'god'?
Because, like the Pascal's Wager argument presents, (in to follow Jesus - just in case), the only alternative presented offer, from this identified intolerant god, is to suffer eternal conscious torment, for which god/Jesus also apparently created. :approve:
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Zzyzx wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 4:06 pm Christians, you proudly worship the bible 'God'. Agreed?
False, Christians only worship the real and eternally living Christ Jesus, the Almighty God. The bible, to the Christians, is a book of testimonies to the Lord Jesus Christ that He truly exists, no more, no less.
The 'god' is well described in the bible as jealous, angry, vindictive, intolerant, and inclined to punish, torture, or kill anyone it dislikes.

WHY worship such a 'god'?
Christians worship God by what they've heard and learned from God, across all generations, not from what they read in the bible, which they know is not God. Your post is wrongly addressed to the Christians, per se.

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OneJack wrote: Sat May 02, 2026 9:44 pm False, Christians only worship the real and eternally living Christ Jesus, the Almighty God. The bible, to the Christians, is a book of testimonies to the Lord Jesus Christ that He truly exists, no more, no less.
Is that saying that Christians do NOT worship 'god'?
OneJack wrote: Sat May 02, 2026 9:44 pmChristians worship God by what they've heard and learned from God, across all generations, not from what they read in the bible, which they know is not God. Your post is wrongly addressed to the Christians, per se.
Is that saying that Christians do NOT learn about 'god' from the bible?
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Zzyzx wrote: Sat May 02, 2026 11:33 pm
OneJack wrote: Sat May 02, 2026 9:44 pm False, Christians only worship the real and eternally living Christ Jesus, the Almighty God. The bible, to the Christians, is a book of testimonies to the Lord Jesus Christ that He truly exists, no more, no less.
Is that saying that Christians do NOT worship 'god'?
Yes, Christians only worship the Almighty God, whose name is Jesus!
OneJack wrote: Sat May 02, 2026 9:44 pmChristians worship God by what they've heard and learned from God, across all generations, not from what they read in the bible, which they know is not God. Your post is wrongly addressed to the Christians, per se.
Is that saying that Christians do NOT learn about 'god' from the bible?
Christians know God truly through God himself, whose name is Jesus. They do not believe in God through the bible, but through God Himself.

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Zzyzx wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 4:06 pm Christians, you proudly worship the bible 'God'. Agreed?

The 'god' is well described in the bible as jealous, angry, vindictive, intolerant, and inclined to punish, torture, or kill anyone it dislikes.

WHY worship such a 'god'?
Yes indeed, why worship, when it is said:

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed any-thing, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
Acts 17:24-25

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OneJack wrote: Sat May 02, 2026 9:44 pm Christians worship God by what they've heard and learned from God, across all generations, not from what they read in the bible, which they know is not God.
Hmm, so the laws in which Moses wrote down, which were ultimately recorded into the Torah, were not from god?
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Peace to you,
Zzyzx wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 4:06 pm Christians, you proudly worship the bible 'God'. Agreed?
No, I worship the God and Father of Christ.

Christ is the One who shows us who His Father truly is.

"... no one knows the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him."

“If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”

God is as Christ reveals Him to be.


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tam wrote: Sun May 03, 2026 10:43 am
No, I worship the God and Father of Christ.

Christ is the One who shows us who His Father truly is.
Yes indeed. And he said this:
Matthew 13:41-42

41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, 42 and they will throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The Father is truly a monster, and his son is the same. Disgusting vindictive intolerant monsters. Good thing neither actually exist.


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Peace to you,
Tcg wrote: Sun May 03, 2026 12:00 pm
tam wrote: Sun May 03, 2026 10:43 am
No, I worship the God and Father of Christ.

Christ is the One who shows us who His Father truly is.
Yes indeed. And he said this:
Matthew 13:41-42

41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, 42 and they will throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The Father is truly a monster, and his son is the same. Disgusting vindictive intolerant monsters. Good thing neither actually exist.


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Would you have suffering, death, starvation, abuse, etc... instead continue and remain forever?

Because the weeds in this parable have been permitted to remain on the earth and grow among the wheat from the beginning - but at some point that will come to an end. Along with death, sorrow, tears, pain. (Rev 21:4)

And even AFTER Christ returns, no one is killed by Him (despite what some religions teach.) Some (the sheep - and these are non-Christians) are invited into the Kingdom and others (the goats) are cast out.

viewtopic.php?p=731804#p731804

Then at the end of the thousand years - people outside the Kingdom come to attack the people God loves. God did not hunt them down. They came out to attack innocent people loved by God. God protects His people.


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